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At one point in Homer’s Odyssey, the hero has to steer his ship between twin dangers: Scylla, a multi-headed monster, and the whirlpool of Charybdis. Leaders of the Group of Seven rich countries meeting this month in Hiroshima may feel they are in a similar situation when it comes to China. They don’t want Beijing to invade Taiwan; but they also want to avoid war with the People’s Republic.

Experts respond to the recent speech by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's recent remarks at Brookings.

One of the major objectives of the U.S.-India civil nuclear deal was to bring India within the international nuclear nonproliferation regime by giving it both the rights and responsibilities broadly equivalent to those of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) member states, without requiring it to officially sign the treaty. This allows India to maintain its nuclear weapons deterrent and to obtain access to civilian nuclear technology and fuel.

The annual debate over renewal of normal trading status for thePeople's Republic of China (PRC) has raised an enormous debate inthis country over the effectiveness of economic sanctions.

The US administration, which has initiated two Summits for Democracy, is obviously seeking to "form a kind of a democratic coalition to counter Russia, China, Iran and other countries the Americans have branded as ‘autocracies", Anatoly Antonov said

The year of the ox has begun darkly for the people of Hong Kong.

“Russian diamonds are blood diamonds”. This dramatic statement was made at the end of January by Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. At the same time, De Croo announced the creation of some global “tamper-proof” system to track the circulation...

My small contributions to the research of the diamond market history published in Rough&Polished and as separate publications aroused keen interest not only in narrow professional circles but also in the academic community, which was quite unexpected...

The annual debate over renewal of normal trading status for thePeople's Republic of China (PRC) has raised an enormous debate inthis country over the effectiveness of economic sanctions, a debatethat comes on the heels of an explosive growth in the use ofeconomic sanctions.

(Archived document, may contain errors) No. 28 May 17, 1985 FOR THE U. S., RISKS AND REWARDS AS CHINA MODERNIZES INTRODUCTION The People's Republic of China (PRC) has been following what it calls an "open" policy toward the outside world in support of its modernization program since about 1978. Foreign trade, credits, and especially technology are welcomed to the limits of the PRC'B ability to finance and absorb them.